2025 Etapes - Loch Ness (April) & Caledonia (May)

[VinSumRox]

I've parked up about an hour and a half from Inverness , so not too far to go in the morning...

 

[steverob]

Having set off from Wiltshire yesterday, stayed with friends in the Midlands last night and having driven most of today we only have a couple of hours left to get to Inverness in the morning. I might try and get a quick cycle in tomorrow.

Can highly recommend taking a ride round the Beauly Firth - that's what I did on my arrival day in Inverness a few years back. https://www.strava.com/activities/5817941447

 

[wakemalcolm]

I've parked up about an hour and a half from Inverness , so not too far to go in the morning...

Ralia, or do you have a better A9 stopover that you can share?

 

[VinSumRox]

Just one of the big laybys after Dalwhinnie
Is Ralia OK to stop in?

 

[wakemalcolm]

Just one of the big laybys after Dalwhinnie
Is Ralia OK to stop in?

We've never been moved on or had any trouble in 15 years. They've started charging for the loo's but that's fair enough. The café did once serve me up a bacon roll where by the own admission the bacon had been cooked off site so haven't eaten there for years.

 

[YMFB]

met up with the rest of our gang in a restaurant in Inverness. Early to bed as got to be up and out of the accommodation for the 0600-0620 wave

 

[VinSumRox]

met up with the rest of our gang in a restaurant in Inverness. Early to bed as got to be up and out of the accommodation for the 0600-0620 wave

Same wave here !

 

[YMFB]

4 hours 40 minutes, rode every hill without getting off. Fantastic event, well organised just sad its a two day drive.

The hill out of Fort Augustus was challenging, but not as hard as Yorkshire Dales.